I’ve been following Arcimoto since it came to the Los Angeles Auto Show in 2012. This unique startup brought a very useable three-wheel electric vehicle (EV) that tilted, which was tons of fun. Arcimoto then came back diligently every year with improvements View...

After the first five months of the year, the British market with a big advantage remains the top market for plug-in hybrid models in Europe. British PHEV sales are not only the highest, but with 47% growth, it’s hard to find any contender that could take the lead. UK:...

This question required a lot of technical research on a wide range of cars to come up with an answer. The basic idea is that an EV is there to convert electrical energy into kinetic energy, or less technically, electricity in for miles of travel out. View Entire...

UPS will trial in London and Paris 35 all-electric delivery vehicles supplied by UK-based Arrival, who earlier delivered the same vehicles to Royal Mail. The modular, light-weight EVs for UPS will have range of 150 miles (240 km), which is significantly higher than...

ometimes, on CleanTechnica, I have seen articles extolling the virtues of futuristic designs for service stations for electric vehicle drivers that include full user facilities for their refreshment and entertainment. As Ringo Star said when asked about the new...

Nico Prost will leave the e.dams Formula E squad at the end of the 2017/18 season, the team has announced. The French driver has raced for the team, which will be swapping Renault’s involvement for alliance partner Nissan ahead of FE’s fifth season, since the first...

Vauxhall might not be on everyone’s lips in the US, but in the UK it’s an everyday affair. The Opel Corsa was reworked by Vauxhall when GM owned all companies, but is now part of Groupe View Entire Article on...

Nissan presents one of its latest and apparently Europe’s largest energy storage system with electric car batteries at the Johan Cruijff Arena stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The 2.8 MWh/3 MW ESS was installed in partnership with Eaton, BAM, The Mobility House and...

Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-sharing company engaged in tautonomous driving developments, outlines bold electrification plans. In 2017, Didi had 450 million users and 21 million drivers, which used about 260,000 plug-in cars. Business is developing so strongly that...

In May, Renault sold nearly a third more electric cars than a year ago and is on track to achieve full-year result of around 40,000. In total, around 3,169 electric cars (excluding Twizy) were delivered (up 31% year-over-year). In Europe, where most of the sales...

Alleged saboteur/whistleblower Martin Tripp has been talking about the need for a lawyer to go to bat against Tesla and Elon Musk. Now, he’s taking the first step. After Tesla sued Tripp for reportedly hacking its Manufacturing Operating System, sending confidential...

Which country plans to put a million electric cars on its roads by 2022? What mountain did an electric car climb this week? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 29, 2018. Friday, we reported that Tesla...

With Tesla’s plans for electric semis and hardcore pickup trucks, an electric motorhome could be an awesome idea. The problem with Tesla is surely not a lack of promising ideas, but instead, so many good ideas that it just can’t keep up. Obviously, the electric...

Volvo’s indelible print on the history of cars has earned it a good place in the eyes of many. Volvo was the carmaker that invented the three-point seatbelt found in every car today. Instead of keeping the IP, it opened it up to everyone — the right thing to do....

BMW has awarded Chinese battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) a contract worth over a €1 billion ($1.16 billion). There are not many details on the news right now but for CATL its seeming to become another big supplier to BMW after Samsung...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is spending the last few days of the second quarter at the Fremont factory in order to oversee the automaker’s end-of-the-quarter push to achieve a production rate of 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week. Without disclosing the production rate, Musk...

This video might be financially dangerous because you may want a Tesla Model X after watching it. It starts with a number of details about the doors, but the most compelling part is the driving section, which is toward the end. One of the most remarkable points, the...

Good morning from Maine where the sun is shining and it is a perfect day to play outside with daughters and my dogs. Before they’re awake and we’re bounding out the door, I have this week’s week-in-review to share. This week the annual ISTE...

Earlier this week I received an email from a reader who was seeking clarification on the meaning of “not filtered by license” in the Tools menu in Google Images. I made the following video to answer that question and to show some other places to find free...

ABCya’s Number Chart is a simple but fun online activity for elementary school students. The chart offers “beginner” and “challenge” activities. In both activity levels students have to drag numbers into their proper places on a number...

As many of you know, Practical Ed Tech is the site through which I offer professional development webinars. I host those webinars on a regular basis throughout the school year. For the last week I’ve offered the five most popular of those webinars in a summer...

If your students are like mine, at one point or another you’ve asked for volunteers and not had any students raise their hands. In that situation using a random name selection tool is an easy way to choose students to call on. And for those times when all of...